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by throwawaymobule 1053 days ago
There's a lot of nuance to how SO and other sites they run work. Turning programmer focused FAQs into a collaborative site was the route it kind of had to take.

Reading through the joelonsoftware blog was kind of eyeopening, since I didn't know he was one of its creators.

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> I didn't know he was one of its creators

This comment just made me feel old :-)

Yet, now that stackoverflow is becoming increasingly hostile to their contributors, I think it would be a good moment to the Wikimedia folks to venture in this area.
I take it you haven't had to deal with many mods on Wikipedia.
Depends on who's fiefdom you encroach upon (and language version). I think SO "culture" is more equalized, even among multiple tags.